Re: [Full-Disclosure] Tools for checking for presence of adware remotely

[Joseph Pierini]

If I meet the sons-of-bs that program and distribute these spyware applications I will do bad things that I shall feel cross and sorry about in the morning, but only very slightly... Suggestion, anything you do run, run it in safe mode. The little buggers are savvy enough to use dll hooking techniques to hide from the OS. I'm beginning to regard them as dangerous and difficult as a root kit. I'm not aware of any network based tools, although you could script something in GFI NSS and scan your network. I find it safer to assume that having been connected to the Internet, they must be infected. I use: Hijack This! CWShredder AdAware Without getting into Microsoft bashing, bearing in mind that the outrageous behavior of that near monopoly keeps me employed through their incompetence and I am really not qualified to do anything else and certainly don't have any grand aspirations to do anything socially beneficial, consider rolling out alternative browsers. Mozilla or Opera work, and have such far reaching and insightful features that truly show the authors "get it" and that might be enough to keep the unwashed masses of end-users from whining about how it's different and they might have to learn something new. God help them, in my day we had to use 1200 bps modems dialing BBS systems using kermit if we wanted our porn...spoiled brats... Best regards, Some guy who thinks he knows a thing or two... > > Hi all, > > Does anyone out there know of any tools available to probe network workstations for the presence of adware/spyware? >